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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1910. 2553· BY mm Pxwsmnxw 01·· mm Uurmn S·rA·rms OF Am<;mcA. Mmh 1»1°*°· A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is rovidcd in the Act of Congress approved August T°""°¤ °°S”*R*°¤¤ 5, 1909, ontitlegl Wg; Act To provioo revenue, oquahzc duties and pgdmggséxe. encourage the industr1w of the United States, and for other pur- ”°°’ P" 82 poscs"— That from and after the thirtdy-Bret day of March, nineteen hundred md ten, except as otherwise specially provide for in this ection, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all articles when imported from any foreigln country into the United States, or · 1DtO any of its possessions (except the Philippine slands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila), the rates of duty prescribed by_the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiablo list of section one of this Act, and in add1t{on thereto twenty-five per centum ad valorcm; which rates shall constitute the maxxmum tariff of the United States: Promkled, That whenever, after the thirty—iirst day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and so long thereafter as the President shall be satisfied, in view of the character of the concessions granted by the minimum tariff of the United States, that the government of any foreign country imposes no terms or restrictions, either m the way of tariff rates or provimous, trade or other regu1ations,_cha.rges, exactions, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, upon the importation into or the sale in such foreign conmtry of any agricultural, manufactured, or other product of the United States w ich unduly discriminate against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country pays no export bountg or imposes no exgort duty or prohibition upon the cxportatnon of any article to t 0 United States w 1ch unduly discriminstcs against the United States or the products thereof, and that such foreign country accords to the agricultural, manufactured, or other products of the United States treatment which is reciprocal and equivalent, thereupon and thereafter, upon proclamation to this cEect by the President of the United States, all articles when imported into the United States, or an of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuihd, from such foreign country sha, excegt as otherwise herein provided, be admitted under the terms of the minimum tari of the United States as prescribed by section one of this Act. ·ANi) WHEREAS satisfactory qvidence has been prosentcd_to me that the Government of Costa Rica IIIIPQSBS no terms or restr1ctions, either in the way of tariff rates or provnsions, trade or other regulations, charges, exactions, or 111 any 0th8I'• manner, ghrectly or ugdnrcctly, upon the importation into or the sale m Costa. Rma of any agncultura.1, manufactured, oy other product of the Umtod States, wh1ch unduly discriminate agmnst the Unitod_ States or the products thereof, and that the Government of Cpsta R1ca pays no export bounty or unposos no ex ort duty or prohib1tion u{>on tho_cx_portation of any artnclc to the lynited States wh1ch undu y dnsommmates agannst tho United States or the products thereof, and that tho Government of Costa Rica accords to the agricultural; manufactured or other_ products of the United States treatment wh1ch IS reciprocal and equwalent: Now, THEREFORE, I, Wn.uAM HOWARD TAFT, President of the lfggjfug *§’g*p°j_g United_States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the gnmcumnzm. aforesaid Act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclmm that from and after Munch 3}, 1910, and so long thereafter as the aforesaid Act of Congress xs m existence and the Government of Costa Baca. im- Eoscs no terms or restncmons ppon tho importation or sale 111 Costa ica of the Erogiucts of the Umteyl States which unduly discriminate against the mtcd States, all artxclcs when 1mp0rtcd into the United States, or any of 1tS possesmons (except the Phihppino Islands and the islands of Guam and Tututla), from_Costa Rnca ghall be admitted under the terms of the mxmmurp tsmff of tho Umtod States as prescribed by Section one of the Tamff Act of the United States approved Au st_5, 1909; Iitlovndcd, however, that this proclamation shall not take effect di§§,‘{g§t‘}”°,§ “;§gg from and after_March_3l, 1910, but shall be null and void in the event ;c¤i¤s¢Am¤r¤¤•¤¤¤m· that, at any tnmo pnor to thopforesaid date, satisfactory evidence °°°°‘ shall be presented to the Presxdent that the Government of Costa. Rica has m_ade such change or changes in its Erosont laws or regulations affccting American commerce nn Costa ics as to discrimmate